Re: Heads up: issue with Intel microcode update and some Skylake based machines

2016-07-07 Thread Adam Williamson
On Thu, 2016-07-07 at 11:46 -0400, Josh Boyer wrote: > We've had a rash of reports of kernels not booting on some Skylake based > machines recently. After working these, we've determined that a recent > Intel microcode update somehow conflicts with something in the system > firmware for these mach

Heads up: issue with Intel microcode update and some Skylake based machines

2016-07-07 Thread Josh Boyer
We've had a rash of reports of kernels not booting on some Skylake based machines recently. After working these, we've determined that a recent Intel microcode update somehow conflicts with something in the system firmware for these machine, causing a complete failure to boot after grub loads the